Weather-strip.



No. 669,865. Patented Mar. l2, mm. W. SMITH, H. E. ASHCHAFT & w. 0. JAMISON.

WEATHER STRIP.

(Application filed. Sept. 18, 1900.)

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WITNESSES:

IT rates WILLIAM I. SMITH, HOMER E. ASI-IORAFT, AND WILLIAM O. JAMISON, OF SEYMOUR, IOWA; SAID ASHCRAFT ASSIGNOR TO SAID SMITH AND J AMISON.

WEATH ER-STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 669,865, dated March 12, 1901.

Application filed September 13, 1900. Serial No. 29,913. (No model.)

To a, whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM I. SMITH, HOMER E. ASHORAFT, and WILLIAM O. J AMI- SON, citizens of the United States, and residents of Seymour, in the county of Wayne and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Weather-Strip, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

One purpose of our invention is to so construct a weather-strip that it may be attached to any door and so that when the door is closed a member of the weather-strip will be firmly in engagement with the threshold strip beneath the door, the engagement between the said member of the weather-strip and the threshold-strip being such as to effectually prevent the weather from beating into the room.

A further purpose of the invention is to so construct the Weather-strip that as the door is opened the protective member of the weather-strip will be automatically carried up to an engagement with the body of the said weather-strip and so that as the door is closed the said protective member of the weather-strip will be automatically brought to an engagement with the threshold-strip and lodged in protective position.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a section through a portion of a door and a transverse section through the improved weather-strip,showing the weatherstrip in closed position. Fig. 2 is a section through a portion of a door and through a threshold-strip, and likewise a vertical section through the weather-strip, showing the weather-strip in position on the thresholdstrip; and Fig. 3 is an inner face View of the weather-strip, parts being broken away.

A represents a door, and B the improved weather-strip, 0 representing the thresholdstrip with which the weather-strip is to engage. The weather-strip B consists of a body and a protective section a. The body comprises a vertical member 10, having a marginal flange 11 at its top, which marginal flange is secured by bolts, screws, nails,or their equivalents to the outer face of the door A, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 2. At the lower portion of the body of the weather-strip a longitudinal knuckle 12 is formed. The protective section is hinged to the body preferably by forming a knuckle 13 longitudinally at one edge, which knuckle is arranged to work upon the knuckle 12 of the body, and the protective section of the weather-strip is so formed that when the door is closed this section will lie over the threshold-strip O, as shown in Fig. 2, and when the door is opened the said protective section will lie close to the body, as is illustrated in Fig. 1.

Two studs 16 and 17 are located upon the inner face of the body of the weather-strip, usually at opposite sides of the centerof said body, as is shown in Fig. 3, and on the stud 16 an elbow-lever 18 is mounted to turn, which is pivotally connected with a link 19, and this link is pivoted to or has a suitable connection 20 with the knuckle 13 of the protective section of the weather-strip, as is clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 3. A spring 21 is coiled around the post 17, and one end of this spring engages with the link 19, while the other end of the spring enters a keeper 22, attached to the body portion of the device, as is shown in Figs. 2 and 3. serves norm ally to hold the protective section a of the weather-strip in close engagement with the body thereof, as-shown in Fig. l.

A connecting-rod 23 is attached to a member of the elbow-lever l8, and this connecting-rod extends in direction of one end of the body of the weather-strip, being attached at said end to the inner portion of alever24, pivoted upon a post 25, the other end of the lever being made to extend out through an opening 26 in the end of the body of the weather-strip which is adjacent to the doorjamb.

The outer end of the lever 24 may be made to engage with a wear-plate attached to the door-jamb, and the said outer end of this lever 24 may be beveled, if found desirable, in

This spring 21 like manner to the outer end of the latch of a door. When the door is closed, the outer end of the trip-lever 24, as it may be termed such, is brought in engagement with the door- 3' a mb or the wear-plate thereon, and the elbowlever 18 is drawn upon in such manner as to pull the link 19 upward, thus forcing the protective section a of the weather-strip downward, so that it will engage with the floor and rest over the threshold-strip O, as is shown in Fig. 2. WVhen the door is opened, the spring 2]. acts to draw the protective section a upward and against the outer face of the body and away from the threshold-strip, as is illustrated in Fig. 1, thus enabling the door to be opened without friction.

It is evident that the elbow-lever 18 may be placed upon the stud or post 17 and the spring 21 on the stud or post 16, and that in this manner the trip mechanism may be made to operate either right or left, it being understood that a duplicate post 25 is located at the opposite end of the weather-strip to receive the trip-lever 24 when the parts are to be shifted from the position shown in the drawings.

Having thus described our invention, We claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a weather-strip, a body-section adapted for attachment to a door, a protective section having a hinged connection with the body-section, and adapted to rise and fall to and from said body-section,atrip-lever adapted for engagement with a stationary object independent of the door, and a connection between said trip device and the protective section of the weather-strip, whereby the protective section may be automatically operated, substantially as set forth.

2. In a weather-strip, the combination, with a body-section adapted for attachment to a door and a protective section having a hinged connection with the body-section, and in one position adapted to extend over a thresholdstrip, of a lever, a link connection between the lever and the protective section, a tension device acting normally to hold the protective section of the weather-strip out of engagement with the threshold-strip and close to the body of the weather-strip, and a trip device a portion of which extends beyond an edge of the body-section of the Weather-strip, and a rod pivotally connecting said trip device with said lever, for the purpose described.

3. In a weather-strip, the combination, with a body-section having means for attachment to a door, said body-section being provided with a knuckle at one longitudinal edge, and a protective section arranged to extend over a threshold-strip and below the body-section, the protective section being provided with a knuckle arranged for engagement with and adapted to turn upon the knuckle of the bodysection of the device, of an elbow-lever pivoted upon the body-section, a link connecting the elbow-lever with the knuckle portion of the protective section of the Weather-strip, a spring normally exerting upward tension on said link, a trip-lever pivoted at an end portion of the body-section of the weather-strip, extending out beyond the same, and a connecting-rod uniting the trip and the elbowlevers, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

,WILLIAM I. SMITH.

HOMER E. ASHGRAFT. WILLIAM O. JAMISON.

Witnesses:

R. O. SNYDER, J AS. H. MCCRACKEN. 

